The Victorian government has been hit with a lawsuit by a security firm tasked with looking after 12 hotels used in the state’s troubled COVID-19 hotel quarantine program which seeks more than $9.7 million for allegedly unpaid invoices.
A judge will hear arguments by suspended lawyer Serene Teffaha, who filed a class action against the state over lockdown restrictions, over whether her clients can be made to supply their details to a Hall & Wilcox lawyer who was appointed to take over her firm.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by famed Richmond pub The Corner Hotel against a jazz club formed in partnership with iconic New York club Birdland alleging infringement of its ‘corner’ trade marks.
The Victorian Government has been hit with a class action filed by residents of nine public housing towers who were locked down for two weeks at the start of the state’s second COVID-19 wave in July last year.
A Melbourne-based personal injury firm has been sued for negligence and breach of contract by a former client who says he was not properly advised about the consequences of a $77,500 settlement after being assaulted while working as a security guard.
The Victorian government has passed legislation allowing the state’s courts to permanently retain digital hearings, electronic signing and remote witnessing, which were implemented last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Victorian public healthcare provider Peninsula Health has been hit with a class action brought by junior doctors who claim they were deliberately unpaid despite working a significant amount of overtime each week.
An accountant who was kicked out of an Australia and New Zealand accounting association after a court found he sexually harassed a colleague has failed to win readmission after being unable to find an eligible member who could vouch for him in a character reference.
A Victorian Labor MP accused of branch stacking has attacked the charges against her as invalid, telling the Victoria Supreme Court that they were brought under “shocking” and “draconian” party rules implemented in the wake of a controversial report on Nine’s 60 Minutes.
RMIT has bit back at a $2.9 million lawsuit by an indigenous law professor who claims the university fired him for complaining about “racially and sexually discriminatory remarks” allegedly made by one of the university’s senior officials, saying he plunged $21,000 of RMIT’s funds into research for a potential private global sake and baby formula venture.